Five Developments in ICT Supply Chain Security in June
June was another busy month for information communication technology (ICT) supply chain security a previously rather unsexy topic that now ties with infrastructure [1] as one of Washington D.C.’s hottest issue areas. Okay, that might be a stretch.
Anyway, here are the trends you should be aware of for the month of June.
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1. Silicon Valley bets big on the Sonoran Desert
The American Southwest is known for a few things: Sin City, stunning desert landscapes, and, currently, a searing drought [2]. Now, it’s hoping it can be one of the country’s major semiconductor manufacturing hubs and help bolster the flagging U.S. chip supply against future shortages and crises.
Trump is suing Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey By: CNN
By Clare Duffy and Brian Fung, CNN Business
(CNN) Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday filed proposed class-action lawsuits targeting Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey, as well as YouTube and its parent company s CEO Sundar Pichai, in a Hail Mary move after being removed from their platforms. Courts have typically dismissed similar suits, and these are likely doomed from the start as well.
The announcement about the lawsuits comes after the companies removed Trump s access to their platforms in the aftermath of the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill. Twitter banned Trump altogether, and he is currently suspended from Facebook for at least two years. YouTube also suspended Trump in January, but it said in March that his account would be reinstated when the company is confident that the risk of violence has receded.
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By Clare Duffy and Brian Fung, CNN Business
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday filed proposed class-action lawsuits targeting Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey, as well as YouTube and its parent company’s CEO Sundar Pichai, in a Hail Mary move after being removed from their platforms. Courts have typically dismissed similar suits, and these are likely doomed from the start as well.
The announcement about the lawsuits comes after the companies removed Trump’s access to their platforms in the aftermath of the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill. Twitter banned Trump altogether, and he is currently suspended from Facebook for at least two years. YouTube also suspended Trump in January, but it said in March that his account would be reinstated when the company is confident that the risk of violence has receded.
In Louisiana, many still lack broadband access
Ledyard King and Mike Stucka
USA TODAY NETWORK
As federal officials debate pouring billions of dollars into broadband access, data suggests many of Louisiana s schoolchildren and adults who preferred to work from home spent the pandemic with sub-par access to high-speed internet, particularly in the state s least-wealthy parishes.
Advocates say that digital divide across the United States is due largely to two factors: a lack of internet infrastructure in the country s rural reaches and the relatively high cost of broadband that has made the service unaffordable for many in urban centers.
In about half of Louisiana s parishes 33 of 64 measured by a Federal Communications Commission study, broadband access is available to at least 72% of residents. Yet in about half of the state measured by Microsoft 33 of 64 parishes no more than 17% of households actually have high-speed access, a USA TODAY analysis shows.